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At home alone I don’t inaugurate.
As silent never-wish-to-witness, I
will read the news that’s fit-to-print, berate
the rest that shouldn’t even amplify
what’s nothing but unspeakable and grim.
So watch––I’ll sit me down with paper, pen
and try to think of every synonym
for fiend and bully, brute and sadist... Then
inspired, I can write (restrained) a snippet
that indicates my indignation that
my nation’s gone. Although this meager sonnet
is nothing more than insubstantial chitchat,
I’ll revel in my puny getting-even:
shunning blather that I can’t believe in.
Jacquelyn “Jacsun” Shah has AB–Rutgers U (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa); MA–Drew U; MFA, PHD–U of Houston: English/creative writing. Poetry publications: chapbook (small fry); full-length book (What to Do with Red); poems in journals. Hybrid memoir: (Limited Engagement: A Way of Living). She was a 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee. Obsessive, she has written 540 centos.
